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Date:      Thu, 9 Dec 1999 18:07:33 +0100 (CET)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Cc:        dick@tar.com (Richard Seaman Jr.), current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Breaking DMA support for multiple chipsets? (was: HEADSUP:  wd driver will be retired!)
Message-ID:  <199912091707.SAA11953@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <19991209114541.59531@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> from Greg Lehey at "Dec 9, 1999 11:45:41 am"

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It seems Greg Lehey wrote:
> >>
> >> I think the old wd code was broken on reporting.  The reporting
> >> was changed from the original submission, when it was committed.
> >
> > Yep, but it does mean that people _belive_ they are running UDMA
> > where in fact they aren't, and now they blaim the ata driver
> > for doing worse :(
> 
> Well, the wd driver definitely ran DMA on the 5591.  And the fix
> Richard reports is not normally output; IIRC it's only on a verbose
> boot.  On my machine, the driver reports:
> 
> ide_pci0: <SiS 5591 Bus-master IDE Controller> irq 14 at device 0.1 on pci0
> ...
> wdc0 at port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 flags 0xb0ffb0ff on isa0
> wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <ST51270A>, LBA, DMA, 32-bit, multi-block-32
> wd0: 1223MB (2504880 sectors), 621 cyls, 64 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
> wdc1 at port 0x170-0x177 irq 15 flags 0xb0ffb0ff on isa0
> wdc1: unit 0 (wd2): <IBM-DHEA-36480>, LBA, DMA, 32-bit, multi-block-16
> wd2: 6197MB (12692736 sectors), 790 cyls, 255 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
> wdc1: unit 1 (wd3): <IBM-DHEA-38451>, LBA, DMA, 32-bit, multi-block-16
> wd3: 8063MB (16514064 sectors), 1027 cyls, 255 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
> 
> DMA is definitely enabled.  There's no mistaking the difference
> between DMA and no DMA.

That was not what I said, it may run DMA but it says UDMA when not
and vice versa, there is a difference between WDMA and UDMA....

> > I'm not sure the other values reported are valid either as they
> > are reported differently from what they are set to....
> 
> I took a look at this a while back and never got round to committing
> the changes.  I believe most of the discrepancies were minor.  I'll
> take charge of fixing that if you like.

I dont care, but for 3.x that might be a good idea....

-Søren


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